Amazing.

BV, why'd you post a link to http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music2/oneidakf.jpg as the source of the photo of the stand-by ticket? I don't get it.

Never mind, I just saw the post that immediately preceded this one. ^^It^^ was just an error.

good catch. fixed, thanks!

I really haven't been a fan of Wilco's recent sound, but seeing this material live has given me a little bit of a betting insight into what they're going for these days. I'm definitely going to go back and give SBS another couple spins. Thanks for the post, BV.

ahh, sweet sweet wilco.

Oh man, that was good.
Wilco on all cylinders. This "new" lineup is now the longest lasting Wilco line-up without a personnel change in the band's history.

2:16.... Glenn Kotche is a monster.

Kotche truly is a monster. This incarnation of Wilco is really heads and shoulders above all the others. I was at the New HAven show last weekend and it was brilliant from start to finish. Nels Cline really brings alot to the band as well.

Yes..... though i was personally amazed that Tweedy is the one playing those solos in the beginning. I knew he had some schooling from Richard Lloyd, but damn.

Photos inside SNL, and especially the one of the ticket, are nearly impossible to get. The pages watch people like a hawk and will stand there while you erase your photos from your camera. Those are the first I've ever seen from a taping. Ballsy move, fakebook!

what other song did they play??

Song 2 was Walken. Tweedy was dressed in his awesome Nudi/Gram Parsons style suit. Very slick.
http://elbo.ws/video/Ga9B6NNRj7w/

"Photos inside SNL, and especially the one of the ticket..."

What? They give out the stand-by tickets in the morning, so you can photograph it at home or whatnot.

groovy. like van morrison.

I did not know that about the standby tickets. The regular tickets are what I am more familiar with, they are very concerned with peoples' ability to counterfeit those.

I want to do dirty, dirty things to Glenn Kotche. Yowsa.

What regular tickets? I entered the lottery for tickets for the current SNL season last August and I received a "ticket" via e-mail which I was supposed to print out. (I wasn't impressed with the host or the musical guest of the particular show I had won entry to, so I didn't go.) I don't recall for sure, but either it had a unique bar code or I would've had to show photo ID.

I love Uncle Tupalo and old school Wilco. Concerning SNL...if it looks like Van Morrison, dresses like Van Morrison and sounds like Van Morrison, it must be Van Morrison.

boring as hell.

so whats so wrong with Van Morrison?

just askin

Wilco rules the world...or they should

is this shorter than the album track?

dig the long hair and wristbands on glenn

Thanks for posting this. I had been wanting to check it out.

It just confirms for me how boring they've become. How does a band with so many monster players put out such mediocre stuff. I miss Ken Coomer and Jay Bennett.

I had never really heard Wilco's stuff before. When I heard they were going to be SNL, I figured I'd check them out. WOW. I love this song, and absolutely love the chords they use.

There is such conviction in the lead singers expression and voice at 1:44. The solo gives me chills. Thank you for posting this. I actually like the Live version better, and I truly regret not discovering this amazing band.

Listen to Tweedy's vocal quality along with the horns and then listen to "Into the Mystic" by Van Morrison.

Getting better, but Wilco has never been the same since Tweedy forced Jay Bennett out of the band. He was the musical backbone for their sound. This stuff is ok, but quite different from what I loved from 'AM' through 'Summerteeth'.
The documentary "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" truly was heartbreaking, to see a really great band get torn apart, seemingly because a bunch of cameras were following them around all the time. Bennett deserved better.

Is Nels Cline the one playing pedal steel? I don't know who plays what on Wilco albums. If so, he sucked on those SNL songs. First song was way too distorted and he can't hit the notes playing pedal steel.

It's a lap steel. A pedal steel has pedals. He hit his notes just fine.